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Article #623576Re: The birth of BASIC
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 11:14
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 11:14
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On 29/05/2018 04:29, Jon Elson wrote: > Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > >> I found this IMO interesting video about the birth of BASIC on >> YouTube. It also shows some old IBM and other machines used back in the >> 1960s. >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw > First picture is John von Neuman (horribly mispelled in subtitles) standing > to the side of the IAS computer, with its rows of Williams tubes. All > vacuum tubes, built from 1946 - 1951 in Princeton, NJ. Now at the > Smithsonian. A moment's thought and suddenly there is nothing new under the sun ... AIUI, the Williams Tubes relied upon the transient charge storage on the phosphor of the screen, and therefore not dissimilar in principle to dynamic semiconductor RAM.
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